Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 80 62
Rank change year-on-year -44 -18 -14
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,393 1,543 3,637
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.59% 3.68% 3.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 3.96% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 949 1,073 2,769
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -16.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -6.81%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66,065 38,941 81,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.24% 92.85% 85.83%
Number of salaries quoted 40,765 22,745 59,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 22 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 22 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -35 1,267 £77,500 +3.33% 541
London +3 684 £87,500 +2.94% 252
Work from Home -21 612 £70,000 -2.77% 338
UK excluding London -118 588 £67,500 -3.57% 353
North of England -30 273 £69,310 -3.72% 110
South East -117 125 £75,000 +11.11% 106
North West -35 124 £70,000 -3.45% 72
Yorkshire -43 102 £69,310 -4.06% 16
Midlands -85 57 £67,500 +3.85% 35
South West -90 55 £63,750 -6.97% 44
North East -9 47 £66,250 +32.50% 22
East of England -24 41 £60,100 +4.52% 23
West Midlands -46 35 £72,500 +3.57% 14
Scotland -74 31 £60,000 -20.00% 14
East Midlands -65 21 £66,000 +1.54% 20
Wales -23 9 £53,171 -20.64% 9
Northern Ireland -39 6 £62,500 +13.64% 15
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 29 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 18 (1.29%) Apache
2 18 (1.29%) Confluence
3 17 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 14 (1.01%) JBoss
6 13 (0.93%) IIS
7 12 (0.86%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.65%) CMS
8 9 (0.65%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.29%) Appian
10 4 (0.29%) Camunda
10 4 (0.29%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.29%) nginx
11 3 (0.22%) Liferay
11 3 (0.22%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.50%) Maya
4 6 (0.43%) PlantUML
5 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.14%) Endur
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.072%) Actimize
6 1 (0.072%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.072%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.072%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.072%) Quorum
6 1 (0.072%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.072%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.072%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 764 (54.85%) AWS
2 572 (41.06%) Azure
3 309 (22.18%) GCP
4 243 (17.44%) Serverless
5 155 (11.13%) SaaS
6 122 (8.76%) AWS Lambda
7 118 (8.47%) GitHub
8 113 (8.11%) Amazon S3
9 109 (7.82%) Azure DevOps
10 91 (6.53%) Amazon EKS
11 79 (5.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 76 (5.46%) Amazon SQS
13 68 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
14 57 (4.09%) Amazon EC2
15 56 (4.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 47 (3.37%) Azure Service Bus
16 47 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
16 47 (3.37%) OpenShift
17 41 (2.94%) Datadog
18 40 (2.87%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.66%) Broadband
2 13 (0.93%) HTTP
2 13 (0.93%) Network Security
3 9 (0.65%) DNS
4 8 (0.57%) AMQP
5 7 (0.50%) Firewall
5 7 (0.50%) Internet
6 6 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (0.36%) DHCP
7 5 (0.36%) MQTT
7 5 (0.36%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.29%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.29%) LTE
8 4 (0.29%) SNMP
8 4 (0.29%) WAN
9 3 (0.22%) Modbus
9 3 (0.22%) Multicast
10 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
10 2 (0.14%) RFID
10 2 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (13.78%) NoSQL
2 173 (12.42%) PostgreSQL
3 128 (9.19%) MongoDB
4 106 (7.61%) SQL Server
5 70 (5.03%) DynamoDB
5 70 (5.03%) MySQL
6 61 (4.38%) Relational Database
7 48 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
8 39 (2.80%) Redis
9 38 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
10 36 (2.58%) BigQuery
11 28 (2.01%) Big Data
12 21 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
12 21 (1.51%) RDBMS
13 15 (1.08%) Pinecone
14 14 (1.01%) Power BI
15 12 (0.86%) DB2
16 11 (0.79%) Data Lake
17 9 (0.65%) Tableau
18 8 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 187 (13.42%) Git
2 125 (8.97%) Jenkins
3 101 (7.25%) GitLab
4 54 (3.88%) TeamCity
5 50 (3.59%) JIRA
6 38 (2.73%) Cucumber
7 32 (2.30%) Cypress.io
7 32 (2.30%) JUnit
8 31 (2.23%) CircleCI
9 27 (1.94%) Selenium
10 20 (1.44%) Bitbucket
11 18 (1.29%) Maven
12 16 (1.15%) Mockito
13 15 (1.08%) Claude Code
14 14 (1.01%) SonarQube
15 13 (0.93%) Vite
16 8 (0.57%) JMeter
16 8 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
16 8 (0.57%) Postman
16 8 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 408 (29.29%) Finance
2 347 (24.91%) Social Skills
3 160 (11.49%) Banking
4 110 (7.90%) Public Sector
5 100 (7.18%) Law
6 88 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
7 78 (5.60%) Retail
8 73 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 53 (3.80%) Telecoms
10 51 (3.66%) Financial Institution
11 42 (3.02%) Back Office
12 25 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.36%) Advertising
13 19 (1.36%) Billing
13 19 (1.36%) Legal
14 15 (1.08%) Games
15 14 (1.01%) Marketing
16 12 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (0.79%) Manufacturing
17 11 (0.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 475 (34.10%) Developer
2 371 (26.63%) Senior
3 284 (20.39%) Software Engineer
4 213 (15.29%) Architect
5 185 (13.28%) Lead
6 118 (8.47%) Senior Developer
7 116 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
8 109 (7.82%) Java Developer
9 96 (6.89%) Senior Software Engineer
9 96 (6.89%) Solutions Architect
10 91 (6.53%) Java Engineer
11 71 (5.10%) .NET Developer
12 59 (4.24%) Software Developer
13 54 (3.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 52 (3.73%) Lead Developer
15 45 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
15 45 (3.23%) Java Software Engineer
16 42 (3.02%) Principal Engineer
17 41 (2.94%) C# Developer
18 40 (2.87%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 316 (22.68%) React
2 290 (20.82%) .NET
3 283 (20.32%) RESTful
4 220 (15.79%) Spring
5 219 (15.72%) Node.js
6 210 (15.08%) REST
7 195 (14.00%) Spring Boot
8 174 (12.49%) Kafka
9 108 (7.75%) AngularJS
10 93 (6.68%) gRPC
11 82 (5.89%) .NET Core
12 77 (5.53%) HTML
13 69 (4.95%) CSS
14 66 (4.74%) RabbitMQ
15 63 (4.52%) .NET Framework
16 59 (4.24%) Vue
17 58 (4.16%) ASP.NET
18 55 (3.95%) Middleware
18 55 (3.95%) OAuth
19 52 (3.73%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 409 (29.36%) Cloud Native
2 246 (17.66%) Distributed Systems
3 106 (7.61%) Product Ownership
4 90 (6.46%) Enterprise Software
5 61 (4.38%) Greenfield Project
6 58 (4.16%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (3.23%) Over-the-Top Content
7 45 (3.23%) Video\Live Streaming
8 41 (2.94%) Data Structures
9 39 (2.80%) Algorithms
10 31 (2.23%) Distributed Architecture
11 27 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
12 25 (1.79%) Mobile App
13 24 (1.72%) Blockchain
13 24 (1.72%) Virtual Team
14 20 (1.44%) AI Agents
15 19 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
16 16 (1.15%) Management Information System
17 15 (1.08%) IoT
17 15 (1.08%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 68 (4.88%) Linux
2 35 (2.51%) Windows
3 16 (1.15%) Android
4 14 (1.01%) Unix
5 7 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.36%) CentOS
6 5 (0.36%) Debian
6 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.36%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.22%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.072%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.072%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 684 (49.10%) CI/CD
2 551 (39.55%) Agile
3 547 (39.27%) DevOps
4 531 (38.12%) Software Engineering
5 392 (28.14%) Containerisation
6 316 (22.68%) Full-Stack Development
7 296 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
8 295 (21.18%) Mentoring
9 286 (20.53%) Event-Driven
10 282 (20.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 271 (19.45%) Test Automation
12 254 (18.23%) AI
13 227 (16.30%) Infrastructure as Code
14 193 (13.85%) Computer Science
15 169 (12.13%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 168 (12.06%) Scrum
17 161 (11.56%) Clean Code
18 158 (11.34%) Roadmaps
19 157 (11.27%) Technical Leadership
20 154 (11.06%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 454 (32.59%) Java
2 388 (27.85%) Python
3 286 (20.53%) SQL
4 264 (18.95%) JavaScript
5 249 (17.88%) C#
6 223 (16.01%) TypeScript
7 136 (9.76%) Go
8 53 (3.80%) Scala
9 45 (3.23%) C++
10 43 (3.09%) PHP
11 35 (2.51%) Bash
11 35 (2.51%) C
12 30 (2.15%) Ruby
13 22 (1.58%) Kotlin
13 22 (1.58%) PL/SQL
14 17 (1.22%) PowerShell
15 16 (1.15%) Shell Script
16 14 (1.01%) Rust
17 10 (0.72%) Groovy
18 9 (0.65%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 200 (14.36%) Degree
2 132 (9.48%) Security Cleared
3 117 (8.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 89 (6.39%) SC Cleared
5 59 (4.24%) AWS Certification
6 36 (2.58%) Master's Degree
7 35 (2.51%) Azure Certification
8 28 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (2.01%) TOGAF Certification
9 24 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (1.51%) DV Cleared
11 17 (1.22%) CISSP
12 16 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
13 12 (0.86%) CISM
13 12 (0.86%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.57%) PhD
15 7 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.43%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (6.46%) QA
2 31 (2.23%) GDPR
3 27 (1.94%) Accessibility
4 26 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.87%) PCI DSS
5 16 (1.15%) SOC 2
6 15 (1.08%) NIST
7 11 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (0.72%) NCSC
9 9 (0.65%) GRC
10 6 (0.43%) IFRS
11 5 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.29%) SLA
12 4 (0.29%) WCAG
13 3 (0.22%) Data Quality
13 3 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.22%) SEPA
14 1 (0.072%) EMIR
14 1 (0.072%) Solvency II
System Software
1 424 (30.44%) Docker
2 15 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.36%) Firmware
4 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.072%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.072%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 438 (31.44%) Kubernetes
2 263 (18.88%) Terraform
3 86 (6.17%) Grafana
4 79 (5.67%) Ansible
5 40 (2.87%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.58%) Argo
7 19 (1.36%) Kibana
8 12 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.65%) HP Fortify
10 7 (0.50%) Cilium
11 6 (0.43%) Puppet
12 4 (0.29%) Istio
12 4 (0.29%) Packer
12 4 (0.29%) Rancher
13 3 (0.22%) Nagios
14 2 (0.14%) MIIS
14 2 (0.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 120 (8.61%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.67%) Google
3 51 (3.66%) Oracle
4 45 (3.23%) Typelevel
5 20 (1.44%) OpenAI
6 18 (1.29%) IBM
7 15 (1.08%) Dynatrace
7 15 (1.08%) Red Hat
7 15 (1.08%) Salesforce
7 15 (1.08%) SAP
8 13 (0.93%) AppDynamics
9 12 (0.86%) CrowdStrike
10 10 (0.72%) Cisco
11 9 (0.65%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.65%) Databricks
12 8 (0.57%) Adobe
12 8 (0.57%) MuleSoft
12 8 (0.57%) Palo Alto
12 8 (0.57%) Software AG
12 8 (0.57%) Splunk